Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by alexandernst 2387 days ago
I don't really understand what are they fixing here. They point that current web development has shifted to "REST backend" and "SPA frontend", which (according to them) is not a good thing (why?). Their solution is to make you write (again) a "full" MVC-backend that also serves the UI (frontend), and additionally, extend it with another frontend layer (Vue).

IMHO that is not fixing the initial problem they are stating that exists, but making it worse, because now you have to write UI-related code in two languages (ruby and js) instead of the 1 that is currently needed (REST + SPA).
1 comments
pmontra 2386 days ago
If I'm not wrong you're assuming that the REST backend is written in JavaScript. This is not always the case. I personally saw that happen only once. All the other times the backend was either Java, Ruby, Python, Elixir.

What's risky is that a few people will know this technology. Far more know React, Angular, Vue. On the other side the same person writing the backend can write the frontend, assuming knowledge of HTML and CSS. So one project, not two. Probably cheaper.

link